Wood-screw



H. K. JONES.

(No Model.)

WOOD scmaw.

No. 373,074. Patented Nov. 15, 1887.

ford, in the county of UNITED STATES PAT NT OFrIcE.

HORACE K. JONES, O F HARTFORD, ASSIGNOR TO THE RUSSELL & ERWIN MANUFACTURING COMPANY, OF- NEW BRITAIN, CONNECTICUT.

wooo- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 373,074, dated November 15, 1.887. I

Application filed August 18, 1887. Serial No. 247,227. (No model.)

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HORACE K. JONES, a citizen of theUnited St'ttes,'residing at Hartartford and State of Connecticut, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Wood 4 Screws, of

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to that class of wood screws made from round wire in which'the forms an '-35 thread is rolled on, and the object of my improvement is by the peculiar ribbed portion of the shank immediately under the head to retain more rigidly in desired position plates of metal through which said screws may pass, as described in detail hereinafter.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is .a side elevation of a screw of my new form.

Fig. 2 is across-section of the'same taken on line at w and looking toward the threaded end. Fig. 3 is a side elevation having the severalfaces of the neck immediately under the head slightly roughened. Fig. 4 is a cross-section of a similar screw having a triangular neck; and Fig. 5 is a side elevation of one of my screws with a plain portion between the thread and theribbed portion of the shank, the latter having transverse as well as longitudinal the head is left a neck, 0, which is longitudinally ribbed or angular'in cross-section and dmportant feature of my invention. Heretofore, so far as I am familiar with the' art of screw-making, this neck has been left round and of the-normal diameter of the wire stock from which the screw was made. The

- act of rolling on the thread invariably raises I "time become loosened, or tne gwooa lightly and throws out radially the outer "edge 01'' highest part of the screw-thread, thereby increasing its diameter and leaving the unthreaded portion of the wire much smaller. than the threaded portion.

When screwsso formed are used for scour ing to wood surfaces metallieplates havinga.

hole or holes of sufficient -"size to receive the threaded body of the screw, the neckjunder: the head will be too small to fill Sllqh.hle,r and thereby allow the plate 'to move in 3. lat

- eral direction. Should such a screw after a:

shrunken, the metal plate may move laterally a considerable distance. This is particularly obj ectio'nablein the case of escutcheons, strikeers hardware in which plates of metal are seon red to woodsurfaces. To overcome this deribbcd neck, 0, asshown by swaging' the round-wire stock and forcing outward two or more longitudinal ridges until they approxi: mately align with the perimeter ofthe threaded body'por'tion a, and thus fill a hole that will just receive said threaded portion.

formed, the slight loosening of oneor more screws does not allow the metal and its attachments to-move laterally, -(as abovereferred to,) but contin position. A

- of forming the head, so that no additionalexribbed form. .This neck may exte'nd to th e screws. In longer screws the neck may stop portion,' 'f, of the normal size and shape'oi the wire, as shown inFig. 5.

roughened byindenting or barring its several faces, (see (1,) the same being produced by roughened faces on the grippers. .If desired, instead of a mere roughening, the gripedges of which will project diametrically be.- yond the normal size of the wire stock.

I claim as my in'vention A screw having a threaded portion, the di ameter of the wire from which said screw is made, and a longitudinally-ribbed neck adjacent to the head, the greatest diameter of said [neck beingapproximately-the same as that scribed, an'dfor the purpose specified. '1

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When'so pense is incurred by adding said angularorplates, butt-hinges, and all that class of buildfeet, I make, immediately under the head a ues to retain it'in proper 1 4 7o The shaping of the neck c to accomplish-the above result is done by-the grippers in the act threaded portion, 'as shown in Figs. 1 and 3, such construction being best adapted for short short of the thread,. th ereby leaving-alcplain .4

In Fig. 3 I have shown the neck 0 slightly ping-dies may be provided with well-defined 1 transverse grooves to produce well-defined transverse ribs h, Fig. 5, the tops or outer-j 915* ameter of which is larger than the normal dig of the threaded'portion, substantially as (le E a wa J j; 

